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Being Clear about Operational Risk - This article explores how a cultural approach can be applied to risk in the finance industry - The melt-down of 2009 could have been avoided if the approach had been widely applied as suggested back in 1999!

Conducting a Safety Survey - This article discusses the practicalities involved in developing, distributing and analysing a safety survey

Effective Safety Leadership - Published in Professional Safety, in Feb 2015, this article discusses the latest research on leadership types & styles and their impact on improving safety performance. A must read for all those who want to make a difference

Fully Engaging Employees to Create a Safety Partnership - This article outlines practical means to effectively involve employees in safety to improve safety performance. The article was presented at the SPE International Conference on Health, Safety, and Environment held in Long Beach, California, USA, 17–19 March 2014.

Goal-Setting for Safety - This article outlines how to make effective use of goal-setting to improve safety performance.

Human Factors in Accidents - This article examines the role of human factors in the quarrying industry, though the suggestions are universally applicable to all

Surfacing Your Safety Culture - Shows strategy and data for the development of the Safety Culture Profiling® method that is the link between the articles 'Towards a Model of Safety Culture' and "Risk-weighted Safety Culture Profiling'. Ties the Safety Culture concept and methods to accident causation and Safety Management System models.

Towards a Model of Safety Culture - presents a theoretical framework to facilitate research on the concept of Safety Culture. Well received, this work has been used around the world in numerous industries and in many academic endeavours.

Treating Safety as a Value - This article examines what 'safety as a value' means and suggests strategies to 'bring the concept to life'.